Runit For Ruby And Everything Else

pyre 15 years ago |

Maybe the capitalization should be 'RunIt?' Talking about 'Runit' and Ruby makes me think that it's a unit testing framework...

amyesheplear1 15 years ago | |

it shouldn't be capitalized at all, i think 'runit' is proper.

sanityinc 15 years ago |

runit's a wonderful tool. Those interested in using it with ruby might want to take a look at the bunch of configurable runit services I use to reliably run several busy Rails sites: https://github.com/purcell/rails-runit

I also wrote an introduction to runit's process supervision scheme here: http://www.sanityinc.com/articles/init-scripts-considered-ha...

bougyman 15 years ago | |

Thanks for those links, it's good to see others using runit, I'm afraid because if its lack of popularity it's been overlooked as a sysv replacement in favor of systemd, upstart, and others. Runit's maturity should be a big edge, when thinking about a replacement PID 1.

evangineer 15 years ago | | |

Yes, it's a shame that the benchmarks didn't include Upstart, but of course that would be tricky to do on the Arch Linux distro they're using.

bougyman 15 years ago | | |

Problem is the only upstart distribution we tried (with the runit-run package in ubuntu) rendered the system unbootable. This seems to be the case with everything past Karmic.

amyesheplear1 15 years ago | | |

have you filed this issue with the runit-run maintainer?

kodeninja 15 years ago |

Cool name! Read it like run-it, and it just re-inforces the fact:D...